Alexandre Ribot

Alexandre Ribot (7 February 1842-13 January 1923) was Prime Minister of France from 6 December 1892 to 4 April 1893 (succeeding Emile Loubet and preceding Charles Dupuy), from 26 January to 1 November 1895 (succeeding Dupuy and preceding Leon Bourgeois), from 9 to 13 June 1914 (succeeding Gaston Doumergue and preceding Rene Viviani), and from 20 March to 12 September 1917 (succeeding Aristide Briand and preceding Raymond Poincare). He was a leader of the Liberal Republican Union during the late 19th century.

Biography
Alexandre Ribot was born in Saint-Omer, France on 7 February 1842, and he made his mark as a lawyer before entering politics in 1877 as a Moderate Republican deputy for Boulogne. He became one of the most prominent republican critics of the Radicals, attacking Leon Gambetta's short-lived ministry and helping Georges Clemenceau overthrow Jules Ferry's ministry in 1885. He became a leader of the liberal-conservative Liberal Republican Union in 1889, opposing the rise of Georges Boulanger's populist coalition. He went on to serve as Prime Minister from 1892 to 1893, in 1895 (when he announced a definite alliance with the Russian Empire), in June 1914 (when his short-lived government was brought down by Radical opposition), and from March to September 1917 (resigning following the failed Nivelle Offensive and the French Army mutinies). From September to October 1917, he served as Foreign Minister, and he ultimately retired from politics in October and died in Paris in 1923 at the age of 80.